Re: Re: Anybody here fluent in both Dvorak & QWERTY

You can definitely be fluent in Dvorak and QWERTY, but it's hard to
facilitate that with anything other than necessity.

There is nothing convenient about switching to Dvorak, so if you don't
*really* want to switch, then you probably won't.  After reading the
zine, I considered it morally wrong to support QWERTY, hence my drive
to cut it cold turkey (not saying everyone should react the way I did,
but that was the kind of dedication I had to switching).  This was
extremely difficult as I am a software developer - and I don't look @
the keyboard for any of the non-alpha characters.  It was like running
through water for a week.  But anyway, just some background...

Once you know Dvorak, if you don't have the daily/weekly need to sit
down at a QWERTY layout, you will not retain it.  I had the need to
sit down at a QWERTY layout daily at my last job, so I was probably
doing about 40 wpm in QWERTY, but maintaining about 70 wpm in Dvorak.

At my current job, I rarely touch a workstation other than my own, and
so my QWERTY skill level has just continued to fall.

I guess my conclusion is that, unless you are extremely diligent, I
think it would be difficult to practice both layouts for the purpose
of practicing and being prepared.

Just thought I'd chime-in...